07.15.08 - A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center. Nicknamed the "Peony nebula star," it blazes with the light of an estimated 3.2 million suns.
07.10.08 - Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a surprising rate of up to 4,000 per year.
06.02.08 - More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy.
06.02.08 - For decades, astronomers have been blind to what our galaxy, the Milky Way, really looks like.
05.29.08 - Astronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted apart in a supernova explosion long ago.
05.28.08 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens.
04.10.08 - Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
03.13.08 - Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapor in a possible planet-forming region around an infant star, along with evidence that these molecules were created there.
02.17.08 - Astronomers have discovered that terrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in our galaxy.
02.12.08 - NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one of the youngest and brightest galaxies ever seen in the middle of the cosmic "dark ages."
01.15.08 - NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic images taken by its Great Observatories to the fingertips of the blind.
01.10.08 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected plump black holes where least expected -- skinny galaxies.
12.20.07 - Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust was forged in the explosions of massive stars.
11.29.07 - A developing star wrapped in a black cocoon of dust is seen sprouting giant jets in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
11.20.07 - The next time you take a moonlit stroll, or admire a full, bright-white moon looming in the night sky, you might count yourself lucky.
10.25.07 - Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away.
09.06.07 - NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compact galaxies ever observed in the distant universe.
08.29.07 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system.
08.06.07 - Four galaxies are slamming into each other and kicking up billions of stars in one of the largest cosmic smash-ups ever observed.
07.11.07 - A scorching-hot gas planet beyond our solar system is steaming up with water vapor, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.